A biography for John Miltonhasn’t been written yet.
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
“...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.”
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.”
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
“True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.”
“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
“Yet some there be that by due steps aspireTo lay their just hands on that golden keyThat opes the palace of Eternity.To such my errand is”